In the area of high seismicity the conventional slabs are become uneconomical due increase in design requirement to tackle additional seismic loads. The use of deep beams, increased column sections etc led to costly frame work. Moreover masonry infill wall effect is not incorporated in the design of conventional slab building frames, which led to unsafe or uneconomical design. These panels are used to fill gaps between the frames of building. Under seismic action these walls increases the strength and stiffness and reduces the time period by increasing the seismic mass of the building. This hinders the ductility requirement of the conventional frames which may lead to brittle failure under seismic action. To avoid this effect the flat slab systems are used. The flat slabs are the beamless frame having lower lateral stiffness, high storey drift, and are more flexible. But these are more susceptible to failure under seismic action.Hence to avoid the failure of flat slab structure under seismic action, some lateral resistance structural elements are used in order to increase stiffness, reduce storey drift, lateral displacement thereby improving the lateral resistance of the system.In the present study an attempt is made to analyze and study the various multi- storied reinforced concrete flat slab building frames with several percentage of infill wall considering the lateral resistance of flat slabs by evaluating parameters, subjected to seismic loading. A number of flat slab building frames are analyzed by varying the percentage of infill wall (0%, 50%, 80% and 100%) to evaluate parameters affected by the addition of infill wall in the flat slab. The results obtained by analysis are used to study and compare the effects of variable percentages of infill wall on the lateral resistance of flat slabs by varying storey height. The several parameters are compared for the lateral resistance assessment of flat slabs. The effect of masonry infill wall on flat slab frame in studied in terms of several parameters for the lateral resistance of the flat slab under seismic actions.
Moment-resisting frames, Flat-slab, masonry infill panels, Equivalent static analysis; STAAD Pro, Reinforced Concrete
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